From 0e361b9a8aff4312b03d2393f15347fb8031093a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:13:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update README in response to some criticisms from some European grad student on IRC --- README | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d7e33518..6eeaa52f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - Welcome to the AllMyData "tahoe" project. This project implements a secure, distributed, fault-tolerant storage mesh. @@ -6,12 +5,8 @@ The basic idea is that the data in this storage mesh is spread over all participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover the data even if a majority of the nodes are no longer available. -The main application code is in the 'allmydata' package, under src/allmydata/ -. There is also a patched version of PyCrypto (adding a faster CTR-mode) in -src/Crypto/ which gets installed to the 'allmydata.Crypto' package (since the -API is different than the normal Crypto package). It also includes Zooko's -PyFEC library, a fast python wrapper around the Rizzo 'fec' C library, -installed to the 'zfec' package and located in src/zfec/ . +The interface to the storage mesh allows you to store and fetch files, either +by self-authenticating cryptographic identifier or by filename and path. LICENCE: @@ -183,3 +178,4 @@ RUNNING: There is a public mesh available for testing. Look at the wiki page (http://allmydata.org) for the necessary .furl data. + -- 2.45.2